Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The available information on the number of claimants less than 25 years of age at November each year is in the tables.
	
		Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance claimants, aged 16 to 24, Great Britain
		
			  Number 
			 2001 165,860 
			 2002 174,350 
			 2003 176,700 
			 2004 178,230 
			 2005 169,720 
		
	
	
		Income support claimants in receipt of a disability premium, aged 16 to 24, Great Britain
		
			  Number 
			 2001 91,700 
			 2002 75,270 
			 2003 72,000 
			 2004 67,900 
			 2005 62,250 
		
	
	
		Income support claimants also in receipt of incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance, aged 16 to 24, Great Britain
		
			  All cases Without a disability premium With a disability premium 
			 2001 123,390 41,360 82,040 
			 2002 109,990 41,160 68,830 
			 2003 105,060 39,280 65,780 
			 2004 99,870 37,930 61,940 
			 2005 90,000 33,280 56,720 
		
	
	1 Figures have been rounded to the nearest ten.
	2 IB/SDA "claimant" figures include credits-only cases.
	Source: DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	When they became aware that the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (Nottingham section) and its claims handling company, Vendside Limited, were deducting and retaining additional administration and legal fees from the compensation paid by the Department of Trade and Industry to retired miners, their widows and families under the claims handling agreement, British Coal respiratory disease litigation.

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	When they became aware that the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (Nottingham section) and its claims handling company, Vendside Limited, were deducting and retaining additional administration and legal fees from the compensation paid by the Department of Trade and Industry to retired miners, their widows and families under the claims handling agreement, British Coal vibration white finger litigation.

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What estimate they have made of the total financial sum deducted by the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (Nottingham section) and its claims handling company, Vendside Limited, from compensation paid by the Department of Trade and Industry to retired miners, their widows and families under the claims handling agreement, British Coal respiratory disease litigation and British Coal vibration white finger litigation.

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What funding is being allocated to the roll-out of the bowel cancer screening programme for the financial year 2006–07 and for each of the following years until 2009; and
	How many faecal occult blood testing kits for the bowel cancer screening programme have been ordered for the first year of the screening programme from April 2006 to March 2007; and
	How many people were tested for bowel cancer as part of the screening pilot in Rugby between April 2005 and March 2006; and
	How many people will be tested for bowel cancer as part of the screening programme between April 2006 and March 2007; and
	How many lives they estimate have been saved as a result of the bowel cancer screening pilot in Rugby since 2000; and what are the estimated improvements in cancer survival in (a) 2006–07; (b) 2007–08; and (c) 2008–09 as a result of the bowel cancer screening programme.

Lord Warner: The national bowel cancer screening programme will be rolled out nationally over the next three years. Funding for the first year of the screening programme is being transferred to the national cancer screening team in Sheffield, and Wolverhampton will be the first local screening centre.
	We estimate that around £10 million will be spent on the first stages of the national bowel cancer screening programme. Funding decisions have not yet been made for future years but we are committed to ensuring that the necessary funding will be made available to ensure the full implementation of the programme.
	NHS cancer screening programmes are taking all the necessary action to ensure successful roll-out of the programme, including the procurement of testing kits. The kit supplier has been notified that the first order is for 100,000 kits.
	24,345 people were tested in Rugby between April 2005 and March 2006.
	We estimate that we could invite about 120,000 to 150,000 men and women for screening in 2006–07 as part of the national bowel cancer screening programme. In addition, the pilot in Rugby plans to invite a further 28,360 people over the next 12 months.
	The number of people actually tested will depend on the numbers who choose to take up the invitation. Based on the pilot, we are anticipating a response rate of around 60 per cent.
	We estimate that the number of lives saved as a result of the bowel cancer screening pilot is between 100 and 150. Our expectation is to reduce deaths in the population invited for screening by 15 per cent.

Lord Bach: The Rural Payments Agency is an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and administers the single payment scheme for England. The payments that farmers are expected to receive for the 2005 claim year are €2,390 million, less deduction of compulsory and voluntary modulation—3 per cent. and 2 per cent. respectively.

Baroness Perry of Southwark: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 18 April (WA 171), what are their reasons for believing that the difference between mean calculated emissions and mean as-built emissions identified in the 2004 Building Research Establishment study supports the conclusion in the Energy Efficiency Innovation Review that less than 5 per cent. of the expected carbon gains from the 2002 revision of building regulations were lost through non-compliance.

Lord Bach: The Energy Efficiency Innovation Review stated that the shortfall in delivery of carbon savings was 5 per cent, but did not relate this figure to the expected gains from the 2002 regulations. The BRE study cited by the EEIR found that the average calculated carbon emissions for the 99 dwellings tested was 19.5kgCO2/m 2 /year while the as-built figure was 20.4 kgCO2/m 2 /year. The difference thus corresponded to the quoted increase of 5 per cent. This should more correctly have been described as change in absolute carbon emissions rather than shortfall in delivery of carbon savings.

Baroness Perry of Southwark: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 18 April (WA 171), whether they now accept that the statement in the Energy Efficiency Innovation Review that less than 5 per cent. of the expected carbon gains from the 2002 revision of building regulations were lost through non-compliance was inaccurate.

Lord Bach: The Energy Efficiency Innovation Review did not relate this 5 per cent. figure to the expected carbon gains from the 2002 regulations. However, this figure should more correctly have been described as change in absolute carbon emissions rather than shortfall in delivery of carbon savings.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville: The European Commission may impose anti-dumping duties on a provisional basis after consulting the member states in its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy committee and taking account of positions expressed by the member states. However Council Regulation (EC) No. 384/96 of 22 December 1995 (as amended) on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community permits the Council, acting by a qualified majority, to decide differently from the Commission.
	The Government recognised at the outset that, irrespective of the UK's position, a majority of member states was unlikely to oppose any duties proposed by the Commission. Therefore the UK sought to limit the scope of the duties and was successful in securing the exclusion of special technology athletic footwear and children's footwear, which were of particular concern to UK importers and retailers. The UK abstained in recognition of this.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville: HM Revenue and Customs does not keep such statistical information.